PART ONE: Identification.  Your answers need not be in complete
sentences; they need only to show that you know what the
significance of the term is.  Please write in your test blue
book.
(2 pts. each)

shih/shi       Ito Hirobumi        bakufu         filial piety
makoto         Chu Hsi             humanism       Kaibara Ekken
bushido        reciprocity         The Great Learning       
The Imperial Rescript on Education

PART TWO: Multiple Choice.  Circle the correct answer on this
answer sheet (do not answer this section in the blue book). (2
pts.
each)

1. In the Analects, Confucius extols
a. the perfect gentleman
b. the six imperial armies
c. makoto
d. feudalism

2. Who was Ihara Saikaku?
a. a Confucian scholar
b. a fiction writer
c. a Meiji politician
d. the sixtieth emperor

3. Takizawa Bakin wrote
a. Greater Learning for Women
b. Makoto: Myth and Legend
c. Hagakure
d. The Story of Eight Dogs

4. What is the main point of the Imperial Rescript on Education?
a. grades 6-12 should study civics
b. all students should read the Analects
c. all citizens should be loyal to the emperor
d. ethnocentrism should be eliminated from the curriculum.

5.  A main theme in Tokugawa fiction is
a. obligation vs human emotion
b. reciprocity vs benevolence
c. historicism vs rationalism
d. metaphysics vs epistemology

6.  Which of the following is not a Confucian relationship?
a. friend-friend
b. husband-wife
c. ruler-subject
d. soldier-civilian

7. What metaphysics did Confucius have?
a. Taoist
b. Shinto
c. Buddhist
d. Sufi

8. Which category does Confucianism fit into?
a. metaphysics
b. epistemology
c. aesthetics
d. ethics

9. The Rectification of Names refers to
a. knowing the correct identity of things
b. ranking emperors according to wealth
c. re-naming all imperial family members
d. writing documents in Japanese

10. What is a chuntze?
a. a knight
b. a mean man
c. a perfect gentleman
d. none of the above

11. What did Prince Shotoku do?
a. he outlawed Confucian values
b. he was the 36th emperor of Japan
c. he was a Neo-Confucian scholar
d. he wrote a constitution

12. Which of the following was not a Confucian scholar?
a. Hayashi Razan
b. Yamazaki Ansai
c. Tanizaki Junichiro 
d. Kaibara Ekken

13. Suicide missions in Japan
a. were not voluntary
b. were illegal, but people did it anyway
c. were extreme expressions of loyalty
d. are recommended in the Analects

14. Which of the following best describes Confucius' metaphysics?
a. mono-theistic
b. Taoist
c. Buddhist
d. Shintoist

15. What was the Wang Yangming School?
a. a branch-off of Neo-Confucianism
b. a National Learning group
c. Buddhist scholars who taught Confucianism to the peasants
d. pro-Western scholars

16. The Imperial Rescript on Education
a. reorganized the school boards
b. made the Analects required reading
c. primarily promoted loyalty
d. introduced the concept of democracy

17.  Which of the following is in the correct order?
a. samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant
b. samurai, merchant, artisan, farmer
c. samurai, artisan, merchant, farmer
d. samurai, farmer, merchant, artisan

18. Which of the following was not an aspect of Neo-Confucianism?
a. historicism
b. humanism
c. rationalism
d. ostracism

19.  What is the most basic level of the hierarchy of knowledge?
a. a balanced government
b. the investigation of things
c. a balanced family
d. the cultivated self

20.  The Fundamentals of Our National Polity
a. established a parliamentary government
b. described loyalty and filial piety
c. was written by Yamazaki Ansai
d. says benevolence is the most important virtue

PART THREE: Essay.  Choose two of the following questions and
answer them in the blue book provided. (18 pts. each)

1. List the six central principles of Confucianism and describe
how they changed (or didn't change) in Japan.  Your answer should
follow the changes in chronological order.

2.  Imagine Confucius could have a conversation with Hibino. 
What objections might Confucius have to Hibino's rhetoric? 
Recreate the dialogue, being sure to cover all the important
aspects of Hibino's philosophy and giving clear reasons for
Confucius' objections.

3.  The Tokugawa period texts we read for class and the Analects
and Great Learning differ dramatically.  What metaphysical
assumptions on the parts of the authors account for this change? 
Identify the assumptions and describe how they affect the texts. 

Give specific examples where possible.


4.  What governmental structures during the Tokugawa period
caused Japanese Confucianism to differ from Chinese Confucianism? 
What differences were there?  How did these structures change
after 1868, and did that affect Confucian values in Japan?